Wibe-gbip



S. P. LEVERICH.

WIRE GRIP.

APPLICATION FILED APR-8.1918.

1 3 1 2,635 Patented Aug. 12, 1919.

SYLVESTER P. LEVERICH, 0F MARION, IOWA.

WIRE-GRIP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 12, 1919.

Application filed April 8, 1918. Serial No. 227,365.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SYLvEsTER P. LEVERICH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Marion, in the county of Linn and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire-Grips; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of this invention to provide a simple and convenient device for holding a wire While being strained, as in the building of wire fences and the like.

The invention is fully disclosed in the description and claims following, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a View in perspective, showin the wire-grip as in use. Fig. 2 is a contra longitudinal section of the same.

A short piece of tubing, such as gas-pipe, for example, is provided with one or more transverse gains or notches 2 and 3 extending nearly half way into the tube 1. These should preferably vary in width, as shown, so as to accommodate difierent sized wire. Across the tube extends a pin 4, which may serve for pulling purposes, or merely to prevent the detachment of a hook 5, formed of a single piece of wire, looped at 6, and its two ends bent in hook form at 7.

The preferred manner of gripping the wire is shown in both figures of the drawing. The wire .8, to be stretched, is first laid in the notch in the tube, and then the tube is turned to make a sharp bend in the wire, which lies at one side, as shown. This alone will stand a powerful strain, but instead of depending upon it, with the hook engaging the pin, it is better to lock the crossed wire in the notch, by passing the hook over it, as shown. This prevents any possible escape of the strained wire. It also prevents any straightening out of the hook, since it is held by the opposite walls of the tube. When the strain is relaxed the wire may be quickly and easily released, by disengaging the hook, and slipping the wire out of the notch.

It will be evident that the tool may be of any desired length, as indicated by the dotted extension lines in Fig. 1. When of considerable length it may be used as a lever to stretch the wire, with a post or other fixed object as a fulcrum.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. A wire-grip, comprising a tube having in one side a shallow, transverse notch to receive a wire bent at right angles to the tube, and a hook adapted to be inserted in the tube and engage said wire crosswise by its terminal lying between the crossing wire and the inside of the tube, the notch being limited in depth to prevent the pulling out and straightening of said hook.

2. A wire-grip, comprising a tube transversely notched to receive a wire bent at right angles to the tube, a transverse pin fixed in said tube, and a hook to engage either the ,wire or said pin, which pin is spaced farther from the tube wall than the cross wire when in the notch, whereby the hook may engage the cross-wire if small and loose in the notch, or the pin, if the crosswire be large enough to be self-held in the notch.

3. A wire-grip, comprising a transversely notched tube to retain the right-angled end of a wire set in said notch, and a looped, double-ended hook insertible in the tube, and engaging the wire in the notch by its parallel ends passing between the wire and the tube-wall on the notched side.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SYLVESTER P. LEVERICH.

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